Pine Cove Neighborhood Watch group forms
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In response to increased crashes and fatalities on highways 74 and 243, the California Highway Patrol is seeking funding and intergovernmental agency cooperation to designate those highways as State Safety Corridors. CHP Public Information Officer Darren Meyer said his agency has begun the process to classify the two mountain highways as SSCs. Terri Kasinga, Caltrans…
No major actions were taken at the July 24 meeting of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission. The discussion of a patient satisfaction assessment process continued. Commissioner Dr. Charles “Chip” Schelly shared a draft of a six-question survey with his colleagues. He stressed that a simple questionnaire would be more likely to generate responses than…
Hearings set for next month Riverside County Executive Officer Jay Orr submitted what may be his final budget recommendation to the Board of Supervisors at its May 9 meeting. In order to fund several major, unplanned and costly issues for fiscal year 2017-18, Orr imposed a 6.5-percent reduction on most county agencies, but not public…
As of press time, the area of Idyllwild-Pine Cove still had a total of six reported cases of COVID-19, according to the Riverside University Health System (RUHS) website. The first reported case for the area was on April 3. The fifth case was reported on May 18. No deaths have been reported for the area…
A small fire ignited about noon when a vehicle and trailer were in an accident just west of Mountain Center on Highway 74. The Mount Fire, on both sides of the highway, reached three acres, is contained, according to Incident Commander Chris Fogle, Battalion Chief San Jacinto Ranger District. Firefighters from the District’s Engine 56…
It was back. Ten years had passed since she had won the battle against breast cancer, yet here it was again. Judy Lawler felt her usual carefree demeanor abandon her just as surely as the test results inserted cancer, front and center, once again into her life. Watching her husband’s stoic expression crumble at the news hit her like a knife in her already troubled heart. Even her self-deprecating, irreverent sense of humor, which she wore like a protective shield, couldn’t deflect the fear that gripped her body and soul …
